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diff --git a/devel/p5-Time-Piece/pkg-descr b/devel/p5-Time-Piece/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..81f1155a5bc9 --- /dev/null +++ b/devel/p5-Time-Piece/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +This module replaces the standard localtime and gmtime functions with +implementations that return objects. It does so in a backwards +compatible manner, so that using localtime/gmtime in the way documented +in perlfunc will still return what you expect. + +The module actually implements most of an interface described by Larry +Wall on the perl5-porters mailing list here: +http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2000-01/msg00241.html + +Authors: Matt Sergeant <matt@sergeant.org>, Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> +WWW: http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Time-Piece + +-- Anton |